What schematic tool (VHDL) is the best?

[buke2]

The question is result of experience in designing Xilinx chip with Xilinx
Foundation 2.1i (very old tool)and ISE6.2.
The first have not good enough VHDL creating tool, the socond is newest but
schematic editor has many...many bugs!!

Anybody has experience with other free GOOD schematic tools ?

THX
Buke

 

[Subroto Datta]

You can use the free Quartus II Web Edition which has a good schematic
editor for Altera parts. The Quartus II Web Edition can be downloaded from:

https://www.altera.com/support/software/download/altera_design/quartus_we/dnl-quartus_we.jsp

Subroto Datta
Altera Corp.

"buke2" <cubah@tlen.pl> wrote in message
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The question is result of experience in designing Xilinx chip with Xilinx
Foundation 2.1i (very old tool)and ISE6.2.
The first have not good enough VHDL creating tool, the socond is newest
but
schematic editor has many...many bugs!!

Anybody has experience with other free GOOD schematic tools ?

THX
Buke

 

[buke2]

"Subroto Datta" <sdatta@altera.com> wrote in message
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You can use the free Quartus II Web Edition which has a good schematic
editor for Altera parts. The Quartus II Web Edition can be downloaded
from:


https://www.altera.com/support/software/download/altera_design/quartus_we/dn

l-quartus_we.jsp
But I cannot use Xilinx chip as target - is any possible way to do it?
Regard
Buke

Subroto Datta
Altera Corp.

"buke2" <cubah@tlen.pl> wrote in message
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The question is result of experience in designing Xilinx chip with
Xilinx
Foundation 2.1i (very old tool)and ISE6.2.
The first have not good enough VHDL creating tool, the socond is newest
but
schematic editor has many...many bugs!!

Anybody has experience with other free GOOD schematic tools ?

THX
Buke

 

[Manfred Muecke]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:11:32 GMT, Subroto Datta <sdatta@altera.com> wrote:

You can use the free Quartus II Web Edition which has a good schematic
editor for Altera parts.

But you should refrain from using records in your port declarations if you
use it, because the tool can NOT handle them.
Subroto, is this something Altera considers to include in the next version
of Quartus?

\Manfred

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[Subroto Datta]

Manfred, I am unclear by what you mean by records in port declarations in a
achematic editor. Can you elaborate?

- Subroto Datta
Altera Corp.

"Manfred Muecke" <manfred_dot._muecke@cern_dot._ch> wrote in message
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On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:11:32 GMT, Subroto Datta <sdatta@altera.com> wrote:
You can use the free Quartus II Web Edition which has a good schematic
editor for Altera parts.

But you should refrain from using records in your port declarations if you
use it, because the tool can NOT handle them.
Subroto, is this something Altera considers to include in the next version
of Quartus?

\Manfred

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A LE! gotcha

 

[Manfred Muecke]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:05:29 GMT, Subroto Datta <sdatta@altera.com> wrote:

Manfred, I am unclear by what you mean by records in port declarations
in a achematic editor. Can you elaborate?

Sorry for being imprecise. If you write a module in VHDL having records in
its port declaration, Quartus does not allow to generate a symbol for it
(which one might like to use in the schematics afterwards). I was told
once, that this is due to limitations within the Quartus schematic editor.

\Manfred


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